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Title: Take The Black Off A Crow
By Zee

Summary: Johnny's life is sometimes confusing. R. Take A Breath That's True #2.

Disclaimer: They belong to DC, not me.

Notes: AU after Superman's death. Sequel to The Compass That You Gave Me; will make *no* sense if you don't read that one first. Thanks to Petra for nudging me to finally finish, and Betty for the beta.


( Tell me everything I'm not )

I started this last summer, after Kon got mind-controlled by Luthor and sent off to Smallville. It started off as a way to help me deal with shitty canon--I thought Kon sulking in Smallville while his friends were in danger was dumb, so I sent him to Boston instead. (It made sense at the time.) And... yeah. It's been *thoroughly* jossed since then, and I'm not gonna finish it, but I still like the idea of Kon as a barista and he and Cass as a team, so I'm putting it up here.

( Just how emo can one clone be? 3580 words. )

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Writing Update:

The Compass That You Gave Me
Words Added: 2,202
Words Total: 12,257 (AHAHAHAHA oh god.)


Dear ZigZag Wireless (company providing my internet at the moment):

Fuck off, and die, and also fuck off. I have had to spend what probably amounts to, seriously, *hours* of the past two days struggling to get a motherfucking signal, and this is only a few weeks after my internet went away *completely* for a week. What the fucking fuck? Do you actually expect me to *pay* for this service?

No. Fucking. Love,
Zee

Ugh, hate mornings. Haate. (I realize that 9:45 am totally doesn't qualify as early to a lot of you, but--shut up.)

Have spent the last two days chasing my own tail and writing this AU that's eaten my brain. It's over 5000 words long now, which is a *lot* for me, especially considering that it's mostly all plotty stuff and no sex. In fact, I'm beginning to think there's not going to be *any* sex in this story, period. Gaaah.

Also, jesus christ, Return of Superman was so bad. So bad. I mean, I knew it was going to be, but--it makes me seriously glad I wasn't trying to be a comic book fan in the early 90's. Not only do you have that foxy mullet action from Clark (and scans like this, which almost made me put my eye out in agony), but the plot is nigh incomprhensible. Like, okay, you have four imitation Supermans, and one of them is evil and one of them is not Superman but IS really hot (Steel. STEEL COME BE MY METAL BOYFRIEND.), and one of them is just a kid, and then the one that's evil turns out to be NOT evil but gets killed by the one who's *actually* evil, and then there's random subplots involving a bearded Lex Luthor and a Supergirl who's under his thumb in a really creepy way, and then Kon gets kidnapped, and then I'm STILL trying to figure out how exactly Clark came back, and it's just... a giant mess. It did have some good bits--Lois was awesome and also made me all sniffly a couple places (even though her little sideplot with washisname Jeb was *deeply* stupid: 'Hey, Lois is one of my oldest friends, and her fiance just died, so I think I'll comfort her by HITTING ON her!'), and Kon was adorable and woobieful throughout the plot, even if he *did* use adjectives like 'fresh' and 'slammin'' in all seriousness.

And he got to save the day! Yay! He averted the evil!Superman's gigantor huge missile from Metropolis and made it blow up without harming the city. Which is just another reason for me to be pissy at Infinite Crisis, because dude, if he could do *that* *and* survive the missile blowing up when he was *on* it when he was three weeks old? (Note: It was a big fucking missile.) He could have destroyed that tower with his TTK or at least made a freaking DENT in it, and he could have survived the whole thing collapsing on him or whatever. Just, geez guys, please kill him in a way that's not INSULTING, okay?

Bah. Infinite Crisis brings out the ASSCAPS in me, and NOT in a good way.

Anyway! I swear I didn't mean for that to turn into a rant, oops. Here, have a picture of what Dick looked like when Superman died. God you guys, I'm writing the story from his PoV and thus I'm *trying* to take him seriously, but I just--look, he has a TINY BAT SYMBOL right over his CROTCH. I don't think I can be blamed for dissolving into fits of giggles every time I write a sentence about his costume or whatever.

Anyway *anyway,* I wrote a thing. comica_obscura stories have been revealed, and I received Don't look back (ride the wind) by Carla, which is a great look at Ultimate Rogue and has some lovely Rogue/Storm bits in it, too. Mmm, Rogue/Storm. I wrote Death to Lesbian Journalists for cesario, which is Transmetropolitan fic about Yelena Rossini and Channon Yarrow and things blowing up.

It's future fic, set a few months after Spider's death. basingstoke gave it a kick-ass beta, and petronelle and various others held my hand.

( Death to Lesbian Journalists )